The most exciting development of this update is that the Document Fonts feature now works on the Mac. InDesign 7.0.0 did not recognize PostScript or TrueType fonts in the document fonts folder, but this update fixes this issue. It now works as advertised.

Mac OS 10.6 only: System font Helvetica Neue.ttc styles conflict with the postscript version of Helvetica Neue styles. [2597446]*
Type1 fonts do not get recognized in the Document Fonts folder. [2606245]*

James graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee in 2003. After a short stint designing catalogs he started working as a freelance designer for C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions. Soon he was promoted to a full time instructor/designer and subsequently become an Adobe Certified Instructor Design Master. Currently James is a Lead Content Manager at lynda.com where he is also an author.

Another big fix in 7.02 is that they fixed the .idlk naming problem that caused some InCopy/InDesign workflows to break. I’ve been checking the site daily to see when this was being released! I need to jump over to InCopySecrets.com and post it.

My Adobe CS5 Updater went off this morning telling me that I had three updates. (ID, IC & IL). At work all of our computers in our computer lab were asking for the updates (Mac and PC). I did check the adobe website and I don’t see the manual download link yet. I guess you have to wait while it updates on their server for you.

AM, my updater popped up as soon as booted my machine. I haven’t heard if they fixed the background PDF export issue, either. But it was still being discussed in the U2U forums last week so I would tend to doubt it.

Another issue obviously still not resolved: the Text Flattening Bug. With flattening settings created in CS5, the ?convert text to outlines? feature fails to do what it promises. ?Inherited? settings (created in CS4 or older) still work as expected.

@Uwe: We hope to regain the option for people to edit their comments in a future site redesign; right now, the technology is broken. My apologies. I have “fixed” your links to make them look a bit better.

@Andre, it is extremely rare (perhaps never?) that Adobe releases any kind of user-interface change in a “dot release” like this. This is just for fixing bugs, typically they’re bugs that cause the biggest problems for the largest customers or the largest number of users.

@Uwe: Thanks for the links. Though I have to agree with Sir Dov in general, I?d also like to point out that Adobe is granting us some pretty ridiculous freedom in other places, e.g. by letting us skew characters from ?85° to +85°! So why not let users choose something like ?convert all text to outlines whether it makes sense or not?? I?d really prefer Adobe practising ?printer education? by expanding cool possibilities rather than by ruling out ?bad habits?. Just saying ?